Monthly Archives: June 2015

End of Season The spring 2015 of bird migration monitoring ended with a bang on June 10th at Cabot Head. More precisely, with thunder, lightning, intense rain, and gale-force wind! At dawn, a strong and warm south wind was…

Dawn Chorus Greeted sometimes by the last vociferations of the Eastern Whip-poor-will, we open the nets now at 5am, in the softening hues of dawn. The diurnal birds have then just started to stir, but, very soon, the…

A proud member of the Canadian Migration Monitoring Network

The Cabot Head Research Station is one of 25 bird migration monitoring stations across Canada. Providing baseline information on avian populations by sampling migrants, by capture or observation, daily during migration contributes to our knowledge about bird populations and movement.